[Yale-readings] TODAY Poetry Reading by Chase Berggrun & Clay Greene, 4:30pm, LC 319

[Kuhl, Nancy]

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Dear colleagues:

The spring season of the Yale Graduate Poets Reading Series commences TODAY at 4:30pm in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 319, with a very special reading by Chase Berggrun. Berggrun will be sharing work from R E D, of which Publishers Weekly writes in a starred review, "In Berggrun’s striking debut, a book-length erasure of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, that text becomes fertile soil for cultivating complex story of sexual awakening, domestic abuse, and liberation. . . . When the speaker asserts that 'I am sane though proving it has been dreadful,' readers hear her triumphant reclamation of agency after abuse and recognize its resonance with the process of gender transition in a transphobic society." English graduate student Clay Greene will serve as Berggrun's opening act.

Chase Berggrun is a trans poet. She is the author of R E D (Birds, LLC, 2018). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, APR, jubilat, Poem-A-Day, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from NYU, and edits poetry for Big Lucks.

Clay Greene is a writer and PhD Candidate in English and Renaissance Studies at Yale University. A writer of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction for ten years, he was a runner-up for the Norman Mailer prize in creative nonfiction and won the Lindsey Stricklin Scholarship for fiction from the Alabama Writer's Forum. In 2014, he received an honorable mention in the Writers of the Future Contest. Most recently, he attended the Clarion West Writer's Workshop in Seattle for new authors of science fiction and fantasy. His fiction and poetry typically draws on the history, imagery, and philosophy of the ancient Classical past and the Renaissance. He is currently planning his sixth novel, which is set in sixth-century Sicily and centers on wine-making.

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We look forward to seeing you at the reading!

Warm wishes,
Brandon Menke, Marcus Alaimo, and Kate Needham


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